CategoryEducation
Kids and Chatbots: How Dissenting Views Got Me Disinvited
As a lifelong software engineer, I am an insider on a topic like this and I know that their programming makes them unsuitable for children
What We Can Learn About Schooling From Baseball
In Part 3, drawing on my experience as a baseball coach, I offer a somewhat different approach to using AI in education
How AI Could Create Vast Increases in Learning Efficiency
Part 2: Artificial intelligence is promising to fundamentally transform education, leading to vast increases in efficiency of learning
A Non-Transhumanist Vision for AI in Education
Bill Dembski describes this new approach as amounting to edification rather than enhancement
Thanks to Our Screens, We’re Heading For a Post-Literate Culture?
Whatever one’s opinions regarding solutions for declining literacy rates, people can always start to brew change in their own lives and communities
Students Beware: AI Copilot Admits Errors But Won’t Correct Them
Parents and teachers must beware when students treat AI research as accurate; I myself was misled while writing this article!
AI in Education: Is the System Being Gamed — or the Student?
AI makes it easier to game the system, but many users are also being gamed
Campus Civil Rights Advocate: Free Speech Makes Us Safer
Greg Lukianoff stresses the importance of listening to people to know what they think
Which Way, Modern University? Jennifer Frey’s story
The shakeup at the University of Tulsa’s Honors College is a puzzler
How To Avoid AIM — the AI Moron Effect
The popularity of getting chatbots to produce assignments may be a signal that college doesn't matter as much as it used toA recent article by James D. Walsh at New York magazine worries that AI is dooming education — such as it is these days. In January 2023, just two months after OpenAI launched ChatGPT, a survey of 1,000 college students found that nearly 90 percent of them had used the chatbot to help with homework assignments. In its first year of existence, ChatGPT’s total monthly visits steadily increased month-over-month until June, when schools let out for the summer. (That wasn’t an anomaly: Traffic dipped again over the summer in 2024.) Professors and teaching assistants increasingly found themselves staring at essays filled with clunky, robotic phrasing that, though grammatically flawless, didn’t sound quite like a college student — or even a Read More ›
The Job Market is Telling Us Something About AI and Jobs…
But it’s not telling us the same things as the AI hypesters are telling us
Is the Reverse Flynn Effect — Declining Intelligence — Real?
IQ tests were never meant to measure memorization or familiarity, yet that’s precisely what’s happening
Ohio State to Require Students to Learn “AI Fluency”
The university is embracing, rather than rejecting, AIIf you can’t beat ’em, join ’em? Ohio State University recently announced that each of its students must take an AI skills class starting in the Fall of 2025. Micaiah Bilger of The College Fix reports, Every undergraduate major at Ohio State will include classes that incorporate “AI Fluency,” NBC 4 WCMH reports. The public university’s leaders have developed a strategy that they believe will equip students to use the technology both creatively and responsibly. As AI continues to shape and disrupt higher education, administrators and teachers have to grapple with how to deal with this powerful technology. Many reports, personal testimonies, and commentary illustrates how much students today depend on AI systems like ChatGPT to do their assignments. Professors, meanwhile, Read More ›
NYT Journalist: The “Download” Model of Knowledge is Flawed
We learn by wrestling with ideas, by paying attention and making connections.
LLMs Are Bad at Good Things, Good at Bad Things
LLMs may well become smarter than humans in the near future but not because these chatbots are becoming more intelligent
Does AI Expose Colleges’ Underlying Problem?
AI could be a symptom of a deeper issue in higher education
Becoming a Slave to Google: How It Happens
Part 4: After an update, you always have to second guess what Google did. You become a reverse engineer who never sees under the hood
Yes, Large Language Models May Soon be Smarter than Humans…
But not for the reason you think